What are the benefits of HDInsight?

Easily run popular open source frameworks – including Apache Hadoop, Spark and Kafka – using Azure HDInsight, a cost-effective, enterprise-grade service for open source analytics. Effortlessly process massive amounts of data and get all the benefits of the broad open source ecosystem with the global scale of Azure.

Quickly spin up big data clusters on demand, scale them up or down based on your usage needs and pay only for what you use.

What comes with HDInsight?

Open source ecosystem

HDInsight supports the latest open source projects from the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystems. Stay up to date with the newest releases of open source frameworks, including Kafka, HBase and Hive LLAP.